Master fundamental 3D modeling skills with the Mechanical Basics Bundle. This bundle includes 30 hands-on CAD exercises, such as Flanged Mounting Hub, Shaft Support Bracket, Slotted Strap Clamp, Four-Jaw Independent Chuck, Water Pump Housing, and more. Perfect for beginners, these exercises cover a wide range of mechanical components, helping you practice part modeling, dimensions, and assembly fundamentals in any CAD software of your choice.
Lifetime access to exercises.
Includes all future updates and new exercises
Create a Flanged Mounting Hub using basic 3D modeling techniques. This exercise focuses on extrude, revolve, fillet, and hole features while practicing dimensioning and geometric constraints. By completing this part, you will gain experience in designing a common mechanical component used for mounting shafts and connecting assemblies.
Design a Shaft Support Bracket to practice fundamental 3D modeling skills. This exercise emphasizes extrusions, cutouts, fillets, and holes, helping you understand how brackets are designed to support rotating shafts in mechanical assemblies.
Design a Flanged Yoke Mount to practice creating parts with combined flanges, cylindrical bosses, and cutouts. This exercise helps you understand how to model components used to connect shafts or rods in assemblies while maintaining structural strength.
Create a Triangular Mounting Bracket to practice designing structural support components. This exercise focuses on extrusions, holes, fillets, and chamfers while emphasizing proper dimensioning and geometric alignment for assembly applications.
Design a Slotted Strap Clamp to learn how to model parts with slots, bends, and mounting holes. This exercise develops skills in extrude, cut, and fillet features and demonstrates practical design for securing shafts or pipes.
Model a Grease Gun Nozzle to practice creating complex cylindrical and tapered features. Focus on revolve, extrude, and cut operations while understanding how precision dimensions affect the functionality of fluid-handling components.
Design a Pump Casing to practice creating hollow enclosures and mounting interfaces. This exercise emphasizes shelling, extrude cuts, and fillets to simulate real-world mechanical housing design.
Create a Flanged Bearing Housing to learn how to model components that support rotating shafts with precision. Focus on extrusions, flange creation, holes, and chamfers to achieve a functional assembly-ready part.
Design a Slotted Dome Cleat to practice creating curved surfaces, slots, and mounting features. This exercise reinforces skills in extrude, cut, and fillet tools for components used in securing and guiding applications.
Design a Spool Holder Base to practice creating a stable support platform with mounting features. This exercise emphasizes extrusion, hole creation, and fillets for realistic, functional parts.
Create a Four-Way Wheel Spanner to practice modeling intersecting arms and symmetric features. This exercise emphasizes extrude, cut, fillet, and chamfer operations, helping you design a functional hand tool with accurate dimensions and ergonomic geometry.
Design a Pump Housing Cover to practice creating enclosure components with mounting features. This exercise focuses on extrude, cut, fillet, and hole operations, helping you understand how to model parts that seal and protect internal mechanical assemblies.
Design an Offset Mounting Bracket to practice creating structural support components with displaced mounting surfaces. This exercise focuses on extrude, cut, fillet, and hole features, helping you understand how to model parts that provide clearance and alignment in mechanical assemblies.
Model a Base-Mounted Flanged Elbow to practice designing pipe connection components with flanged interfaces. This exercise emphasizes extrude, revolve, cut, and hole features, helping you create parts that connect piping systems while providing secure mounting to a base.
Design a Three-Way Flanged Pipe Fitting to practice modeling multi-branch piping components. This exercise focuses on extrude, revolve, cut, and hole features, helping you understand how to create parts that allow fluid or gas flow in different directions while providing secure flange connections.
Create a Slotted Foot Peg Mount to practice designing support components with adjustable mounting features. This exercise emphasizes extrude, cut, slot, fillet, and hole operations, helping you model parts that allow positional adjustments and secure attachment in mechanical assemblies.
Design a Spoked Valve Handwheel to practice modeling rotary control components with symmetric spokes. This exercise focuses on extrude, revolve, cut, and pattern features, helping you understand the design of ergonomic hand-operated parts used for controlling valves or similar mechanisms.
Model a Threaded Branch Flanged Tee to practice designing piping components with multiple connections. This exercise emphasizes extrude, revolve, cut, hole, and threading features, helping you create parts that join pipes securely while accommodating flanged and threaded interfaces.
Design a Threaded U-Clamp Bracket to practice creating clamping components with threaded features. This exercise focuses on extrude, cut, hole, fillet, and thread operations, helping you model parts used for securing pipes, rods, or other cylindrical components in assemblies.
Create a Water Pump Housing to practice designing enclosure components for fluid-handling systems. This exercise emphasizes extrude, cut, shell, fillet, and hole features, helping you model parts that protect and support internal pump mechanisms while providing proper mounting and fluid flow pathways.
Design a Linkage Mounting Bracket to practice creating mechanical support components for linkages and moving parts. This exercise focuses on extrude, cut, hole, fillet, and chamfer features, helping you understand how to design parts that provide secure attachment while allowing precise motion in assemblies.
Create a Square Flange Housing to practice designing enclosure components with flange interfaces. This exercise emphasizes extrude, cut, fillet, and hole features, helping you model parts that provide structural support and secure mounting for mechanical assemblies.
Your information will never be shared with any third party